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As an avid (for some reason) fan of Saturn, I constantly keep track of the images the NASA/ESA Cassini orbiter sends back to Earth. Therefore, I couldn't resist the temptation of sharing the latest image the spacecraft snapped of Enceladus, while the ice-covered moon was at its crescent.
Backdropped by the rin... |
8 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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With each new image the NASA Cassini orbiter sends back, I appreciate the spacecraft more and more. For almost 8 years now, the probe has been conducting various experiments around Saturn, its rings and it moons, and the latest view it captured of Dione proves its worth yet again.
This time, the small moon was captu... |
2 February 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is of great interest to astronomers because it's the most Earth-like object in the solar system. One of the most recent studies conducted on the body was aimed at surveying its dunes using radars, and experts say that this allowed them to learn more about the moon's past c... |
24 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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A view of the Saturnine moons Titan and Tethys taken from aboard the NASA Cassini orbiter appeared obscured when researchers decoded it. The photos was snapped just as one of the gas giant's rings was interposed between the spacecraft and the two moons.
In this view, Titan is seen to the left of the image, the ... |
13 January 2012
09:00 GMT |
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A failure in the radio system aboard the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has its mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, on the edge. The probe is fairly old, and is now communicating with Earth by using a backup system.
The orbiter has been studying Saturn, its m... |
13 January 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Among astronomers, Saturn's largest moon Titan is primarily known for being the only object in the solar system other than Earth to have liquid chemicals on its surface. A group of investigators in the United States finally provides an explanation of where these chemicals originate. Both of Titan's poles ... |
5 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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A group of scientists and engineers recently presented the Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance (AVIATR) concept to the world. The aircraft is designed specifically to be able to fly in the dense atmosphere surrounding Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn.
Previous proposals saw researche... |
3 January 2012
05:22 GMT |
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A new photograph of Ligeia Mare depicts the landscape feature in beautiful colors that remind us of Earth. Yet, the sea is located on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and is filled with liquid hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane, rather than water.
Even so, Titan and Earth are not that different. Granted, atm... |
30 December 2011
03:23 GMT |
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The American space agency is celebrating Christmas in its own way, by having some of its spacecraft send back new images of targets such as stellar nurseries and gas giants. The NASA/ESA Cassini mission and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) are the most important such probes.
Cassini is without a doubt... |
23 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini spacecraft carried out a new flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, December 12. While the main science data obtained during the maneuver have yet to be compiled, researchers say that the flyby did provide some interesting new views of the Saturnine moon system.
Experts at the NASA Jet Propul... |
13 December 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will be carrying out a double flyby over the course of 36 hours, starting on December 12. Within this time frame, the probe will see both Dione and Titan.
The Dione flyby will occur first, and will... |
10 December 2011
06:22 GMT |
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For nearly an entire Earth year, a massive storm devastated the atmosphere above Saturn, baffling experts with its unusual intensity. Data collected by the NASA Cassini orbiter as the storm took place have now been centralized in a series of images and animations of what went on.
Researchers hope to use these data t... |
18 November 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will carry out a new flyby over the Saturnine moon Enceladus. The maneuver will be special because the probe will use its radar instruments to map the ice-covered space rock.
This is the first time that... |
4 November 2011
06:07 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini orbiter carried out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus on October 19. The spacecraft was able to collect a series of new images of the object, which is of interest to scientists because it may contain an ocean of liquid water under miles of ice crust.
During the new flight, the space probe... |
21 October 2011
06:25 GMT |
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One of the things that made astrobiologists so interested in Saturn's largest moon is the fact that it shares many similarities to our own planet, in terms of atmospheres, atmospheric chemical cycles and so on. However, how Titan got to its current configuration is still a matter of debate. At this point, scient... |
19 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that the Saturnine moon Enceladus experiences constant snow fall. Researchers have determined that large amounts of frozen precipitations fall to the space object's surface from its wispy-thin atmosphere. The phenomenon was discovered throug... |
19 October 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will carry out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus today, October 19. As it will attempt to image the object's geysers, the probe will use light from stars in Orion's Belt.A... |
19 October 2011
04:37 GMT |
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This September 13 image snapped by the NASA Cassini spacecraft shows a part of Saturn's impressive rings, with the moons Enceladus and Tethys in the foreground. The image is taken from a great distance, which explains how the two moons were caught in the same frame.
At the time the image was taken, the orbit... |
11 October 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Astronomers say that a large comet impacted Saturn's beautiful rings back in the 1300s. While this has been known for quite some time, a new study indicates that the tracks are still visible today. The announcement was made on October 4, at a science meeting.
Essam Marouf, who is a professor of electrical en... |
10 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A set of newly-released images showing the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in color indicates that the celestial body may be a lot more similar to Earth than first believed. Granted, its surface is covered by a thick, yellow, unbreathable atmosphere, but many similarities still remain.
This image was... |
6 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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On Saturday, October 1, the NASA Cassini space probe completed its latest flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus. The mission was to focus the spacecraft's sensitive instruments on the geysers at the south pole of the celestial body, and observe as they are spewing out water particles and organic matter.
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4 October 2011
02:48 GMT |
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Thanks to the most advanced space telescope ever built, researchers managed to establish that the influence the icy moon Enceladus exerts on Saturn is a lot more significant than originally thought. Apparently, the smaller body is the source of water vapors in the gas giant's atmosphere.
This was established... |
22 September 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Given the tremendous similarities that exist between Earth and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, experts are comparing the two in order to determine how the environment on extrasolar planets may look like. They are also trying to understand what ingredients are necessary for the development of life.
While they a... |
5 September 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Despite missing liquid water, the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems to be perfectly capable of producing DNA molecules, or at least some of the chemical precursors leading to these molecules. Scientists say that the “chain of life” may have already appeared high above the moo... |
25 August 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Since the Sun first formed, about 4.6 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system have been shifting their positions non-stop. At this time, the trend is less obvious, but in the earliest days gas giants such as Jupiter ran wild. Now, a study looks at how the planet influences the solar system.Jupiter is the l... |
25 August 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Experts investigating Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, recently discovered a white arrow on the object's surface. About the size of Texas, this structure went unexplained for quite some time. Now, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles propose an explanation for its existence.The UCLA ... |
16 August 2011
04:42 GMT |
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After several weeks of relative inactivity, the NASA Cassini orbiter managed to snap a new set of pictures covering a large portion of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The image reveals a large number of dunes and craters, as well as the enigmatic bright feature called Xanadu.The latter is located on the leading ed... |
9 August 2011
03:18 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has recently determined that the water vapor spacecraft were detecting the in upper atmosphere of Saturn come from the ice-covered moon Enceladus. The source of these vapors has been sought-for for many years, but to no avail.Recently, experts managed to get a breakthrough when they used the Eu... |
26 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific investigation, astronomers were finally able to get more insight into the phenomena and processes that lead to the Saturnine moon Iapetus taking on the odd yin-yang look that it does. Apparently, what it all comes down to is the presence of dust in the orbit the moon takes. Iapetus' external ... |
13 July 2011
03:36 GMT |
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A tremendous thunderstorm that formed in the atmosphere of the gas giant Saturn is wider than our entire planet, the results of a new study show. The investigation also determined why the storm formed now, when experts were expecting it later on.
Called the Great White Spot, the massive storm has been imaged in e... |
7 July 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Studies conducted using a NASA orbiter are showing that the radio waves emanating from both the north and south pole on Saturn are different in their variations. Researchers say that these variations also change with seasons, and that the wave characteristics were even exchanged between the poles. At one point in tim... |
29 June 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the plasma spectrometer instrument on the Cassini spacecraft has just been taken offline, due to a series of malfunctions affecting its operations.At this point, there is no clear schedule to indicate when the sensitive instrument will be brought back online, but N... |
16 June 2011
11:51 GMT |
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A group of astronomers says that upcoming missions aimed at exploring Titan might also feature instruments or detectors capable of searching for thunders. Finding signs that the atmospheric phenomenon takes place will make it easier for scientists to find lightning. The atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon is... |
3 June 2011
01:38 GMT |
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Following new studies conducted on the Saturnine moon Enceladus, astronomers determined that this object is the most likely in the solar system to contain life. It exceeded its companion moon Titan in this area only recently.Until now, astrobiologists believed that they had the highest chances of finding life at othe... |
2 June 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The Saturnine moon Enceladus – one of the most interesting objects in the solar system – got another picture taken recently, as a NASA orbiter flew relatively close to it. The spacecraft was located in excess of 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) away. This new view shows a mixture of the old and the new on... |
25 May 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Astronomers are now beginning to get more accurate insights into a massive storm that occurs on the surface of Saturn, causing the gas giant to change its overall appearance. Such impressive storms take place only once in a generation, investigators say.The most common effects such events trigger are the development ... |
20 May 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Three tiny satellites are currently onboard the space shuttle Endeavour, awaiting delivery to the International Space Station (ISS), Each of the three prototypes is the approximate size of a fingernail.Developed by experts at the Cornell University, the 1-inch spacecraft are testing technologies that could one day fl... |
18 May 2011
05:46 GMT |
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As we announced earlier today, NASA has decided on the three proposals it will pursue further for a major space exploration mission, to be launched in 2016. One of them is the Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) probe, which could finally establish a human presence on Saturn's largest moon. The NASA Cassini orbiter, whic... |
6 May 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Using the latest data collected by the NASA Cassini orbiter, astronomers were able to determine that the moon Enceladus plays an important role in the creation of auroras on its home planet, Saturn. Investigators learned that the moon releases massive plumes of electrically-charged particles, and that these surges fl... |
21 April 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be more similar to Enceladus, another moon orbiting the planet, than astronomers first realized. New datasets appear to indicate that the former also has a liquid ocean beneath the surface. If this is confirmed, then Titan will officially become the weirdest moon ever. Some of t... |
19 April 2011
03:38 GMT |
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Investigations carried out with the NASA Cassini orbiter around Saturn have revealed that the gas giant is sending out mixed radio signals. The planet's rotation causes variations in the radio waves it releases, but these variations are different between the northern and southern hemispheres.In addition, it was ... |
23 March 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Since the diminutive moons Atlas and Pan were discovered around Saturn, experts have wondered about how they formed. The conclusions of a recent investigation clear up the mystery, proposing that the two objects were formed through the aggregation of icy particles. What separates these two moons from the rest of Satu... |
17 March 2011
11:59 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has recently learned that the south pole region of the moon Enceladus is emanating a lot more heat energy than Earth's most active geologic hot spot, the Yellowstone Volcano. This is completely unexpected, especially considering that the average temperatures on the Saturnine moon are aroun... |
8 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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In-depth analysis of a series of datasets collected by a NASA spacecraft last year revealed a surprising level of activity on and near the surface of the Saturnine moon Enceladus. The investigation was conducted on information collected on March 12, 2010, by the Cassini orbiter.This spacecraft has been in orbit aroun... |
14 February 2011
09:09 GMT |
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Given the host of conditions on the Saturnine moon Titan, experts are convinced that the space body is one of the primary candidates for discovering alien life elsewhere other than Earth. There are of course other moons in the solar system that can be classified as potentially habitable, such as for example Enceladus... |
1 February 2011
08:29 GMT |
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In mid-December 2010, astronomers reported the development of a massive storm in the atmosphere of the gas giant Saturn, one of the largest planets in our solar system. The atmospheric structure has since grown to impressive size, reaching a diameter more than ten times that of Earth's.Last year, the beginning o... |
28 January 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have released the latest images of the Saturnine moon Rhea, that the Cassini space probe collected during its January 11 flyby of the space object. The NASA lab manages Cassini for the American space agency's Science Mission Directorate, in Washington DC. The spacec... |
14 January 2011
06:43 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who managed the NASA Cassini orbiter around Saturn, are proud to announce that today is the ten-year anniversary of the moment when the spacecraft passed by Jupiter, on its way to its final target. The encounter took place on December 30, 2000, as Cassini was headi... |
30 December 2010
04:26 GMT |
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The NASA Cassini orbiter has produced new amazing photos of its target planet, the gas giant Saturn, when it managed to observe in detail a massive storm that erupted in the planet's northern hemisphere. Neighboring planets Saturn and Jupiter both feature complex weather patterns, but the difference between them... |
28 December 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Since July 1, 2004, the NASA Cassini orbiter has been keeping an eye on the Saturnine moon Titan, around which it already flew a number of passes. But what the probe has uncovered only managed to peak astronomers' interest, and so experts are now considering sending a blimp to the moon. There are several reasons... |
27 December 2010
02:47 GMT |
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